Sun, Sep 21, 2008
In 1963 schoolgirl Alison Carter disappears from the village of Scardale and young policeman George Bennett investigates. Although there is no body it is treated with the seriousness of a murder case, suspects numbering Alison's school-friend Charlie Lomas, though he is eliminated from enquiries and her uncle Simon, a known sex offender, who is later found dead in a field, an apparent suicide. Further evidence points towards Alison's stepfather, Philip Hawkin, an aloof man disliked by the locals and when a gun is stolen from a friend of Hawkin's, George pulls him in for interview. Forty years later Catherine Heathcote, a London-based journalist who was brought up in Scardale by her alcoholic mother, returns to the village with her teen-aged daughter Sasha to make a film about the disappearance.
